Blogging For Money With Wordpress – 3 Steps on How to Get it Right!
If you’re blogging for money and not using Wordpress then you’re at a disadvantage. The reason for this is that Wordpress is probably the best free blogging platform that you can use because there are so many themes (skins) and plugins (addons) that there is something for everyone.
Now just because something is free doesn’t mean that it is defective in some way. Quite the opposite. Wordpress is an open source product. This means that programmers all over the world are constantly updating and ‘inventing’ aspects of Wordpress for Public use and in the process making it better. What do these guys get out of it? Often making a positive reputation for themselves which equates to making money for later.
Anyway, digressing off topic a bit, you’re reading this because you have heard there’s money in blogging. You’ve heard right but only when you set things up the right way. It’s like all things – do it properly from the beginning and you have less problems later on!
There are three stages of making money online with Wordpress and even blogging in general
Step #1
If you do not have a niche – find one. Don’t find any niche, remember you’re looking for one that has people looking to spend money! There are several niche areas that come to mind – Travel and Leisure, Legal, Financial and Health and Fitness to name but a few.
The point is that people in these niches have a need. Often that need is associated with a desire to spend money or time to satisfy that need. This is your ‘market’.
Often this step in niche selection is overlooked but it’s crucial as it influences how you will monetize your blog in step 2. You have to ask yourself the question – Is the niche topic at buyers or information seekers?
Step #2
Right, now you have your niche what next? Well, you’re looking to monetize your blog aren’t you? You have two options as I see it. If in the niche identification step you realize that your visitors are more hungry for information – ‘pre buyers’. You can use your blog to provide content that is useful and informative for them. This is an ideal platform for an AdSense site. Visitors are more inclined to browse ‘your (hopefully) excellent content and click a few links/ads. If the niche is more geared towards selling then your blog will have affiliate products.
One of the crucial aspects that most bloggers ignore is that a good general rule to follow is the ‘less is often more’ don’t ‘mix and match’ AdSense and sell affiliate products – it doesn’t work – trust me I’ve tried it!
Step #3
Get your Wordpress blog set up and working. It’s much easier to set a blog up now than it’s ever been but there’s more to it. In fact failure to set up the blog properly is one of the main reasons bloggers of all types fail and quite often they blame the market. There’s an estimate for example that 85% of commercial blogs don’t use SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) properly yet blogs are an SEO experts dream. Those people that do use it are much further ahead of the game and that’s just one example.
Setting up a blog must be done right at the beginning and it’s one of the three major factors in getting it right, especially if you’re blogging for money.
Author: Peter Burke
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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Business On Line-Starting A Home Business In Ireland
Author: Terry Gorry
Article:
Doing business on line in Ireland is a bit of an anomaly because by definition if you are doing business on line or looking to start an online business you are looking to trade goods or services with the entire world.
There are many ways to do business on line and it is possible to start an online business with virtually no cost.This should be a very attractive proposition for anyone in Ireland who wishes to start their own online or home business.
It should be particularly attractive to anyone for the simple reason that you are not restricted by the normal geographical and population boundaries which restrict you when you live on a small island with a population which is roughly the same as a good size city in neighboring countries.
Business On Line-Some Options
There are numerous ways to start your own online business and make a good living from it.It is important at the outset to recognize that I am talking about starting a real business selling real products to real customers whose needs you will fulfill.
There are 3 primary routes that you can use to start your business on line and these are 1. Affiliate Marketing(selling other people’s products) 2. Creating and selling your own product 3. Content publishing
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing involves selling other people’s products for which you get paid a commission.It is a simple and virtually cost free business model which works very well provided you are prepared to work hard and provided you acquire some basic skills and tools which primarily include the ability to set up Wordpress blogs and market them and attract visitors.
You can attract visitors and generate sales by 2 methods-1)Free traffic, 2) Paid traffic.
To build a long term sustainable business model you should concentrate all of your marketing efforts on free traffic through good search engine optimization of your blogs and article marketing.
Creating Your Own Online Product
This entails creating your own information product which can be a good short report or ebook which will be downloadable instantly for your customer who pays online through Google or Paypal or credit card.
Content Publishing
Content publishing involves publishing content ie writing blog posts and information and using Google adsense as a method of monetization.This simply involves signing up with Google as a publisher and placing Google Adsense blocks on your site;when visitors click on an ad you get paid for each click.
This outlines the framework in which you can start and run a successful business on line and surpass the boundaries imposed by living on a small island on the periphery of Europe with a small population.
About the author:
Check out Terry’s site http://BusinessAndLegal.ie where he looks at business on line and how to start a small business in
Ireland
